Citi Foundation Gives $20M to Accelerate Economic Opportunity in Six U.S. Cities
Release Date:
05/18/2016
... will have access to technical assistance from leading national researchers and experts and will have opportunities ...
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Casey Family Programs Evaluates Housing’s Role in Child Welfare Services
Release Date:
05/24/2016
... Evaluates Housing’s Role in Child Welfare Services The national effort spearheaded by the federal government and ...
The Ultimate in Contest Philanthropy: MacArthur Foundation’s $100 Million Jackpot
Release Date:
06/03/2016
... The competition is called 100&change. The project can be national or international and it has to come from an ...
As 12 Early Community Schools Face Funding Cuts, Advocates Question City’s Long-term Commitment
Release Date:
06/17/2016
In New York City, an unexpected fight has flared up between proponents of social service-filled “community schools” and the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio, one of the nation’s most outspoken champions of those schools.
Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality
Release Date:
07/29/2016
“This is a preference that preferences the already advantaged,” observed Richard Kahlenberg, a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation and a prolific writer on higher education issues.
Casey Family Programs Contributes to Initiative in Three Cities to Beat Youth Homelessness This Year
Release Date:
08/11/2016
... before the start of another school year. According to the National Center on Family Homelessness, one in every 30 ...
Surdna Foundation’s Cordery: Communities Should Define Their Futures
Release Date:
08/25/2016
... place and regional identity across Southern states. Few national foundations support marginalized communities in ...
NoVo Foundation Supports New Initiative to Fight Violence Against People With Disabilities
Release Date:
09/02/2016
... possible by the support of the NoVo Foundation, to build a national coalition to address violence against people with ... disabilities. The initiative will identify and support a national coalition of leaders...
Rockefeller Supports Research on Farming Adaptations to Combat Climate Change
Release Date:
09/06/2016
... The work was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the US National Science Foundation, the NERC/DFID Future Climate for ...
Wallace Foundation Funds Research on Summer Academic Programs for Poor Children
Release Date:
09/07/2016
... which funded the research as part of its $50 million National Summer Learning Project... Wallace Foundation Funds ...
Morgan Stanley Renews Commitment of $8 Million to Feeding America
Release Date:
09/23/2016
The key components of the grant will expand the firm’s Flex Grants program, to help twenty-five local food banks start, grow and sustain childhood feeding programs annually.
Wallace Foundation Study Looks at Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth
Release Date:
09/30/2016
... urban districts participating in Wallace’s $50 million National Summer Learning Project, third-grade students who ...
Brooklyn Community Foundation Welcomes Nicole Gueron to Board of Directors
Release Date:
10/17/2016
... for the Southern District of New York, and was awarded the national Director’s Award for Superior Performance for her ...
Weinberg Foundation Makes New Commitment to Military Members and Their Families
Release Date:
11/16/2016
The Mission Continues reintegrates veterans who are adjusting to life outside the military by engaging them in the work of strengthening communities from within.
New York Life Donates $500K Challenge Grant Toward Creation of Central Park's First Statues of Real Women
Release Date:
11/28/2016
... the New York State Woman Suffrage Centennial in 2017; the National Woman Suffrage Centennial in 2020; and the 200th ...
Racial Justice Is at Heart of Brooklyn Community Foundation Shift
Release Date:
12/06/2016
Cecilia Clarke, president and CEO, said in a statement announcing the decision: “Private prisons, gun manufacturers, and predatory lenders are three industries that have had a devastating impact on communities of color and low-income communities in...
Commonwealth Fund Study Finds that Repealing Obamacare Could Cost 3 Million Jobs
Release Date:
01/06/2017
Congress has another reason not to roll back Obamacare too quickly: New research suggests that repealing two major provisions of Obamacare without replacing them right away could cost the nation 3 million jobs and trigger negative economic impacts...
Russell Sage Teams Up With Robin Hood to Host First Poverty Solutions Conference
Release Date:
01/18/2017
On Monday, February 6, Robin Hood, New York's largest poverty-fighting organization, and the Russell Sage Foundation, the nation's premier foundation devoted to social science research, will host their first annual Poverty Solutions Conference.
Former Goldman Sachs Foundation President Among Many GS Leaders Now in Trump Administration
Release Date:
02/03/2017
For weeks, Donald Trump ran his presidential transition out of Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan. Now that he has been sworn in as president, he has made the move to the White House – and he’s taking part of New York with him.
Edwin Gould Foundation Accelerator's BEAM Addresses Equations & Inequality in NY Times Feature
Release Date:
02/17/2017
The extreme racial homogeneity in the rarefied realm of young math wizards has drawn little attention in a nation where racial equality in the basic institutions of civic life — schools, housing, health care, policing — remains elusive.